The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-04-08

Tho Church Missionary Society
gets 100000 from the mite boxes.
The true ancestor Of progressive
orthodoxy seems tn the ChrjsfiGn Lead
En- TO be discovcrable In Bushnell. the
famous Hartford theologion.
The Frcc-Wm Baptists Of America
report S2.32S members. an increase
during the year Of l.6O6; 1.5l2 churches.
and 1921 ordained ministers.
Bethany Church has opened :
coffee and free reading-room in New
ark. N. j.. and five hundred young
men visited il during the first month.
Fifty thousand dollars has been
given toward establishing a missionary
bishopric in Fiji. At San Paulo. q Bra
lillian recently made a gift Of five thou
sand dollars toward erecting . boys
training school.
The New York Christian Advocate
thinks .there are five hundred hypo-
critics. impostors and cranks Of one sex
or the other getting a living rs temper
ancc lecturers, e~varlgclists, etc, in the
United States and Canada"
The First Presbyterian Church a
New York. which has existed more
than one hundred years without any
other musical instrument than a pre-
centor's tuning-fork. has at last yielded
to modern progress and will purchase
$40. 600 organ.-N. y. Mail.
-Ex-President White. Of Cornell.
predicts that eventually there will be
formed q great educational system
worthy Of this country. in which the
public schools will give the basis. the
colleges the intermediate education.
and the universities the most advanced
general and professional instruction.
During 1856 there were 1858
matriculated students Mt Edinburgh
University. being the largest number
ever known there Of these. 1915 were
in the faculty Of medicine. 1.122 in the
faculty Of arts. 400 in the faculty Of
law. and 1O8 were in the faculty Of di-
vinity. Not more than forty per cent
Of the medical students are Scotchmen.
KEY. j. ID. r. Brown. a successful
revivalist Of Illinois. was a soldier. and
lost an arm in the war Of the rebellion.
About . year ago a pension was grant
ed to him. and he received seven thou
sand dollars back pay. This he At
once. as he said. devoted to the Lord;
and he Is using il to build and main
tain churches In his district. ~. y.
Sun.
The committee Of the Northern
and Southern Presbyterian churches,
to make arrangements for the centen-
NAL celebration in 1888. have agreed
that the celebration shall take place the
fourth Thursday in May. 1883. in Phila-
delphia. Commemorative services will
be held and addresses delivercd-halfo 81
the speakers to be from the Northern
and half from the Southern Prcsbyte-
rian Church.
The following figures give some
idea Of the Roman Catholic mission
work: At present India has 20
Bishops and Archbishops and l.200
priests; China and Japan, 80
Apostolic Wears and 1.40O missions
ries; Africa. 2 Archbishops, II Bishops.
IL Wears and IS Apostolic prefectures;
British America has 80 Bishops and p
900 priests; Australia, 70 Bishops and
300 priests
The young lady teacher Of a public
school at Santa Rosa, Cal. was very
DESTROYS Of giving an exhibition at
The close Of the term, and drilled the
scholars in declamations. recitations.
etc. The pupils were strongly averse
to the project, fearing the criticisms Of
visitors. and when the dreaded day ar
rived and all preparations we're com
pletcd. the teacher was surprised by
the absence Of visitors. Of whom she
had invited many. The reason was
male apparent by the subsequent dis
covery that the pupils had surrepti-
tiously pinneda card on the door after
the school hour. which read: 'Exami-
nation day! No visitors admitted his
afternoon!"